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updated 18th May'09  

N.B. Above Chart is abstracted from NextView Program

Last week we said that, "Well the mood had swinged greatly over the past two weeks, from people believed there was going to have a big correction to the current stage that a bull should continue to charge further, with a possible of another great Bull run emerged! The mood swing is certainly incredible and many analysts have been forced to switch their bear market view into a bull market. As for us, we remain unchanged in our view, and that we believe the current rally is still a Bear market rally. The question is, will this be the last rally for this counter trend move OR it is just wave A of the bear market rally, of which it will have a pull back before a final wave C rally to carry DJIA into the 10000 level! I am more incline to the second view. So, if my view is correct, then we would likely experiencing a pull back correction pretty soon! Since March 8, DJIA has been experiencing 8 weeks or rally out of the past 9 weeks, the market is certainly very overbought and should be having a correction any moment. However, as we had said before, there are about 11 type of correction patterns and it is very difficult to pin point to the exact correction formation until it had happened. As such, we have no clue when the market is going to correct, for the market has not given us a concrete action. At this moment, what I can say is, if DJIA and S&P both break below 8350 and 898, a bigger correction should be coming." Indeed we were right to the dot! Both DJIA and S&P had broken their support at 8350 and 898 last Wednesday, pointing to a possible of starting a bigger degree correction. We also said that, "As for STI it has broken its long term down trend line resistance at 2230 and continued to charge up last week. The key question is whether STI could continue to stay above the 2230 next week. Failing which, it may be an indication that a bigger degree correction is on the way." Again we were right, STI had finally given way and stayed below 2230 for the most part of last week. So, has the long await correction started? If so, how far the correction can go? If not, was last week a mere pull back before another impulsive surge coming?

Well, let's look at the rally since 8th March. Both DJIA and S&P have 8 weeks of positive close as compared to 2 weeks of negative close. The negative close on this week seems more convincing than the previous negative close (three weeks ago), for it was closed at the lowest point for the week! This week close was also just below the up trend line that starting from 8th March, which is another significant evidence on the market weakness. Having said that, market is rather oversold short term, as such a sudden rally will not be surprised to us. Next week we will have very light economic data and corporate results to be announced, couple with a public holiday coming on the next Monday, we could expect market to turn quite by end of the week. As such, my guess is market may have some rebound in early part of the week, but will drift lower towards end of the week. Indeed, any rebound could be a good chance for you to exit your long position, for a bigger degree sell down if not been started, may start any moment! If the market is working in according to our expectation, we believe after a short rebound in the early part of the week, we may encounter a fierce sell down by end of the week, if not by early part of next week. As for STI it had failed to stay above its support at 2230,signaling more weakness ahead. If STI breaks below 2100, it is likely continue drifting lower towards the next major support at 1960. A correction is much overdue since 8th March, and it is increasing likely to happen soon. As such, we remain cautious short term but feel that after a big correction, STI should be able to continue climbing up into higher level.  For mid term customers who had followed my email advise to purchase on 3rd March, and subsequently added some stocks on 6th April, you should consider taking profit and stay sideline now. As for short term investor, you may start looking into opportunity to short the market using CFD or SBL account.
The following are the support and resistance to watch for Dow Jones, Hang Seng and Nikkei next week.

                       Dow Jones   Hang Seng     Nikkei
Resistance       8350            17400            9380
Support             8230            16400            9050

As for STI the resistances and supports are as follow:
Resistance:      2350, 2380, 2400
Support:            2300, 2230, 2150, 1960, 1885, 1850, 1830

Events To watch For The Coming Week:

  1. The movement in Dow Jones Industry and NASDAQ..
  2. The movement in currencies, oil and commodities price.
  3. The corporate earning results on last two Dow Industrials components, Home Depot and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday.
  4. The economic data include Monday's May housing market index, Tuesday's April housing start, Wednesday's minute of Fed last meeting, Thursday's weekly jobless claims, Philadelphia economic leading indicator.

The following are two possible wave counts on STI as at to-date:

  1. Preferred Count (60% probability)-- bullish count
    My preferred count calling for a top at 2502 (on 7/1/2000) as wave ((1)), it then follow by a two year sell off on wave ((2)) to 1197 (on 28/9/2001). The index had then entered into an  impulsive wave ((3)) that ended at 3906. We are now in the development of wave ((4)), of which we expect it to be a big triangle formation that take about one to two years to complete. The recent sell down is the first leg of wave ((4)), which will take a form of a-b-c and reaches the potential target of 2770, as the wave (a) of ((4)). The index will then continue to develop the (a)-(b)-(c)-(d)-(e) triangle formation.
     
  2. Alternate Count (40% probability)-- bearish count
    My alternate count calling for a top at 2502 (on 7/1/2000) as wave ((1)), it then follow by a two year sell off on wave ((2)) to 1197 (on 28/9/2001). The index had then entered into an  impulsive wave ((3)) that ended at 2666 in May 2006. The index had then entered into wave ((5)) that ended on 3906 in October'07. We are now in the downtrend bear market, which will last for a few years! Although this count remains as the least chance as compare to my preferred count. If the index breaks below 2776 convincingly on very high volume, the odd on bear market will significantly increase.

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